After the early morning workout, Bai Tu was dining with Lu Bu, Lu Lingqi, and Tai Shici.

At first, Tai Shici refused, his duty was to protect Bai Tu, as for Lu Lingqi...... Although theoretically he was also the guard he commanded, Tai Shi Ci felt that at this point, there was no need for his own commander to interfere.

As for Lu Bu, not to mention, the relationship is here, after coming to "train" Bai Tu every day, isn't it normal to eat together?

However, Bai Tu is really awkward, and there is a person standing next to him when he eats, so usually if Tai Shi Ci catches up, Bai Tu will pull him to eat with him......

Unless it is on a formal banquet occasion, Bai Tu will endure the corrupt behavior of letting people serve him on the side.

Many people can't understand the "awkwardness" of the white picture - is this awkward? The real wealthy family, not to mention serving when eating, even "fart" has to prepare a special servant, the role is to take the initiative to come out to the pot when the master's house farts!

"The fish that Xingba brought back tastes good." Lu Lingqi said.

"When Yuan Shu's business is over, we can go back and taste the fresh." Bai Tu said helplessly.

This breakfast is quite precious!

It is millet porridge, pickled vegetables, and fifty catties of wild yellow croaker...... Salted fish marinated.

If it is a wild yellow croaker of more than 20 catties in modern times, I am afraid that it can be auctioned for millions, right?

But there is no way, from Wuxian County to Hefei, even if it is "a ride on the red dust and white smile", it is unlikely to eat fresh "goldfish", after all, the road conditions are here, and it can only be salted into salted fish.

"Actually, I still prefer last night's bacon." Lu Lingqi said.

"Jiangdong and Huainan are not as cold as Bingzhou, don't eat so many fatty things, otherwise unnecessary fat will reduce your speed and reaction." Lu Bu reminded.

Lu Lingqi rolled her eyes, compared to Bai Tu...... Lu Bu has higher requirements for Lu Lingqi.

Well, after all, Lu Lingqi is now Baitu's "guard", and if there is an enemy, she will go first......

"Ahem, whether it's bacon or ham, it's going to be promoted in the future." Bai Tu said.

As a large pig farmer, Bai Tu naturally knows that the supply of pork is greatly increasing.

Whether it's bacon or ham, the taste is not to mention, the salt consumed will be a satisfactory figure!

In ancient times, the price of salt had nothing to do with the cost, especially after the advent of the salt drying method...... Its essence is a kind of "tax".

Whether it is a peasant family in the countryside or a lady in the boudoir, everyone has to eat salt, which is a poll tax in disguise.

At the same time, salted fish, cured meat, and other foods containing a lot of salt are actually invisibly given additional taxes!

So it is different from the cooking method of yellow croaker, for bacon, cured meat, ham...... The way this kind of food is prepared, Bai Tu decided to spare no effort to promote.

In the case that salt production is mainly controlled by Baitu, the heavier the taste of the people in the world, the better!

It's all taxes......

Bai Tu even wanted to publicize it: You are not eating salted meat, you are supporting the Han Chamber!

According to the World Health Organization, humans consume salt every day, with an optimal value of 5g.

In the eyes of modern people, especially those in heavy taste areas, it is very "light" amount.

And in Bai Tu's view, at least in the agricultural civilization, what is the best value to pursue is completely nonsense - manual laborers who cultivate in the open air under the sun will definitely not have the same demand for "salt" as modern white-collar workers.

At least in the history of Chinese civilization, until the modern era, "salt" has always been in short supply.

Bai Tu saw in a certain paper that after various fancy calculations about the salt intake of the people in the Han Dynasty, the data obtained was that the spring and autumn periods were ...... The per capita salt consumption of Qi State, which is a large salt producer, is close to 5g, which exceeded the standard by three to four times in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

However, it is now safe to say that there is a big problem with the way the paper is calculated......

First and foremost, the data that is the basis for the theory comes from "salt consumption".

You must know that in ancient times when there were no refrigerators, a large part of salt was used to store, that is, to pickle ingredients!

However, there is a lot of loss in pickling, and there is a large deviation between salt consumption and intake......

Judging from the sales channels of 17 salt merchants, about 300,000 stone of sea salt boiled every year is about 300,000 stone consumed in Jiangdong.

In general, it is similar to the Qi State in the Spring and Autumn Period, after all, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Han Dynasty, there was no qualitative leap in the salt-making process.

Moreover, the people of Qi are also large salt producers in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Of course, considering that there must be cases of private boiling of salt among the people, in fact, the per capita salt consumption in Jiangdong is higher than that of Qi State, but it will not be too large.

In other words, even in Jiangdong, a salt-producing land, the salt intake of ordinary people is slightly lower than the "light" health standard of modern people!

Lu Bu just reminded Lu Lingqi not to eat too fat, but did not say not to eat too salty, which also proves this from the side.

From this point of view, the people at this time still have a lot of potential to support the Han family......

Of course, there is also a prerequisite that they have to get rich first, otherwise they don't mind eating lighter!

After breakfast, Bai Tu received an "email" from Lu Su from Jinling in Hefei Ji, which showed the pricing of salt quotations from various places.

In fact, Bai Tu and Lu Su have been discussing this issue for a long time before, and now it is only the final confirmation, after all, the salt introduction of the Ministry of Civil Affairs will be officially launched soon.

Each "lead" can go to the salt factory to exchange salt for 500 stones, but the salt guide is not sold in the salt field.

Although many articles describe ancient salt as comparable to gold, often hundreds of times the price of rice, in fact in most "normal" periods, the price of salt is far from that high.

Moreover, the price of salt is actually much more stable than the price of grain, and the price of grain can easily be dozens of times worse in disaster years and good years, while there are only two possibilities for the inflated price of salt - either the court is short of money, or the salt merchants are out of control......

The price of salt in the Han Dynasty was generally about 1,000 yuan per stone, which was four times that of grain in a normal year.

However, now that the times are already in turmoil, the price of grain in Jiangdong has still tripled under the pressure of relief grain, which is already very conscientious.

At this time, the price of salt is about two and a half times the price of rice.

Although the Han family is now very short of money, and the wealthy family who boils salt also wants to get out of control and have a good time, but ...... The latter has no basis for monopolizing the salt industry at all, and the former can't collect a penny, so they can only wait for people with lofty ideals like Bai Tu to "help the Han family", and the price of salt will naturally only rise slightly, and it will not be able to fly.

According to the history of the "other world", the price of salt in the Tang Dynasty was basically stable, just because there was too much grain, resulting in a price difference of dozens of times, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was too short of money, which increased the purchase of salt and iron, so that the price of salt soared, during the Song Dynasty, most of the period, the price of salt will not exceed ten times the price of grain, but it will probably rise every time it is chaotic.

At present, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has set the basic price of salt at 500 stone grain, that is, salt and grain are about 1:1......

The salt introduction at the basic price can be purchased in Wu County, and it can be used for grain, money, or silk.

However, at this price, retail sales are at most twice the cost, and transportation and other issues are also considered, and the profit is not high.

The more profitable salt is distributed in Hefei, Guangling and other places, as long as 200 stone of grain, must be settled with grain - that is, to encourage everyone, the grain is transported to Huainan.

Beasts have animal paths, rats have rat paths, and if you really transport grain from Jiangdong, half of the consumption is also the minimum, especially now that Huainan is drought, the transportation consumption has surged, so that the ...... It is better to give full play to the subjective initiative of each family and see if there is any potential to be tapped.

And without the guidance of Bai Tu, they consciously began to acquire the owner's land in Huainan - as for the ownerless land? I'm sorry, but the ownerless ones are all to be used to "support the Han family", and now they are managed by the General's Mansion.

Even the General's Mansion is personally buying land in Huainan, but what Bai Tu can see is an open area suitable for military tuns and collective farming, and he doesn't bother to look at the corners at all.

In addition, in places adjacent to Jingzhou such as Chaisang, if it can be proved that the grain was transported from Jingzhou, there is also a half-price discount of 250 stones......

The effect is very significant, and sure enough, these scholars still have potential to be tapped, because the price of grain in Jiangdong did not go to heaven under the pressure of relief grain, so it did not form a siphon on the surroundings.

And as soon as this salt was introduced, a boatload of grain flowed from Jiangxia into Jiangdong......

In the past, when Bai Tu wanted an official transaction, Liu Biao directly refused, but now it is all a "folk behavior" that has been broken into parts, and he has no power to intervene, after all, his degree of control over the wealthy clan under his jurisdiction is far less than that of Bai Tu.

Because you can go down the Yangtze River, the cost of transporting grain in Jingzhou is low, and Jingzhou is not greatly affected by drought, and many wealthy families have their own ways in private, and the price of grain in Jingzhou has also increased by three points.

It is rumored that after Liu Biao learned the news, he once scolded his mother.

Baitu's salt is not only a salt tax, but also a series of changes!

There were even some ruthless people who blew up, such as ...... Guangling Zhang's cooperated with Wujun Zheng's, and Zhang's took out fifty percent of the originally abundant grain and sent it to Guangling City, and then there was a large branch, which went directly to receive relief grain, and then moved to Jiangdong.

Of course, there are some deep-seated transactions between the two sides, such as the Zhang clan, which traded the land to the family who stayed in Guangling before moving away, so that so much grain could be taken out, and they traded their land in Huiji Shanyin from the Zheng family.

And Zheng has also become the largest salt agent in the short term......

For this kind of commotion, Chen Gong naturally welcomed, and Zhang Hong, the representative of the Zhang family who moved to Jiangdong, was also appointed as the chief secretary of Guangling, that is, his assistant in Guangling, and promised to take him back to Jinling with him and introduce him to the center - the reason why he moved to Jiangdong was not only for money, but also for betting on Baitu.

When he was in Hefei and saw someone from the direction of Shouchun transporting grain to change salt, he couldn't help but feel worried about Yuan Shu, and silently gave the visitor another five discounts......